Dixie Chicken Greatest Hits

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drumboy
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Sometime in the late 90's/very early 00's someone made a mix CD with old country songs and labeled it something like 'Dixie Chicken Greatest Hits' (for obvious reasons).

I remember is be pretty popular and getting around though several people copying it for friends. Does anyone remember this and know what songs were on it? I'm trying to make a similar playlist in Spotify.

Thanks
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Duncan Idaho
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10:02a, 10/23/12
I would be interested in seeing this. Mainly because I want to see how it changed from my time working the front bar and playing music
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Can you give us a list of music that you'd play? when did you work there?

I can make the playlist on Spotify and share it so people can play it for free.
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Was it Northgate Noise? It was like 2-3 albums of that kind of music.
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10:12a, 10/23/12
Northgate noise is what I thought of too

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002TJL7ZW/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?me=&redirect=true&ref_=olp_product_details&seller=
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10:35a, 10/23/12
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Awesome.

I added all songs from Northgate Noise Volumes I & II to a spotify playlist and here's the link.

http://open.spotify.com/user/srerik/playlist/1vreF8dXqNsFXdC1vaEG0D

Disclaimer: not stealing the music. Spotify is free on PCs and ~$8 a month to use on mobile devices and you can make/share playlists. Also not affiliated.
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Duncan Idaho
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10:37a, 10/23/12
can you post a list of the songs? I don't have spotify on this computer.
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From Amazon.com listing for Northgate Noise:

Volume I TRACK LIST:
1. She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Double) - Gary Stewart;
2. Sangria Wine - Jerry Jeff Walker;
3. Luckenbach, Texas (Back in the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings;
4. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd;
5. Gringo Honeymoon - Robert Earl Keen, Jr.;
6. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Freddie Fender;
7. Redneck Girl - Bellamy Brothers;
8. Tight Fittin' Jeans - Conway Twitty;
9. Southbound 35 - Pat Green;
10. Guitar Town - Steve Earl;
11. King of the Road - Roger Miller;
12. White Lightin' - George Jones.

Volume II TRACK LIST:
1. Drinkin' My Baby Goodbye - The Charlie Daniels Band;
2. My Hometown - Charlie Robison;
3. I Can Tell By The Way You Dance - Vern Gosdin;
4. Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver) - Merle Haggard;
5. Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash;
6. The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton;
7. All The Gold In California - Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers;
8. El Paso - Marty Robbins;
9. Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean;
10. Just Good Ol' Boys - Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley;
11. Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time - Mickey Gilley;
12. You Never Even Called Me By My Name - David Allan Coe;
13. Whiskey River - Willie Nelson.

[This message has been edited by drumboy (edited 10/23/2012 9:43a).]
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Duncan Idaho
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1. She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Double) - Gary Stewart;
2. Sangria Wine - Jerry Jeff Walker; - I would have gone with pissin' in the wind.
3. Luckenbach, Texas (Back in the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings;
4. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd; - Part of "don's stacks" we weren't allowed to play it.
5. Gringo Honeymoon - Robert Earl Keen, Jr.; - All the Robert Earl stuff was part of Don's stack
6. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Freddie Fender; - Always found this song killed the night
7. Redneck Girl - Bellamy Brothers;
8. Tight Fittin' Jeans - Conway Twitty;
9. Southbound 35 - Pat Green; after my time
10. Guitar Town - Steve Earl;
11. King of the Road - Roger Miller;
12. White Lightin' - George Jones.

Volume II TRACK LIST:
1. Drinkin' My Baby Goodbye - The Charlie Daniels Band;
2. My Hometown - Charlie Robison; - after my time
3. I Can Tell By The Way You Dance - Vern Gosdin; - I am having trouble placing this
4. Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver) - Merle Haggard; - would have gone with big city, mama tried or fighting side of me
5. Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash;
6. The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton;
7. All The Gold In California - Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers; - part of don's stack
8. El Paso - Marty Robbins;
9. Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean; - part of don's stack and I don't think I ever heard that played there
10. Just Good Ol' Boys - Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley;
11. Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time - Mickey Gilley;
12. You Never Even Called Me By My Name - David Allan Coe;
13. Whiskey River - Willie Nelson.


Not a bad list. Some stuff I would change. I would add stuff from

stuff from Clint Black's Killing Time
stuff from Lyle Lovett's Self Titled or Pontiac
Long Haired Redneck
Drinking my baby off my mind
Dixie Chicken by Little Feat
Clyde by waylon jennings
Anything by Bob Wills
John Conley's Rose Colored Glasses

It has been close to 20 years since I flipped through those records. I am sure I will think of others.

We also used to play a crap load of stuff from Buffett Old Testament (anything before Fruitcakes)
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11:08a, 10/23/12
needs some merle. my favorite "chicken song" of all time is haggard's "are the good times really over".
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Duncan Idaho, do you have Spotify on any computers? I've made this a collaborative playlist so you should be able to add tracks.
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I've been listening to Steve Earl while making this playlist and it reminded me how much I like his music. I stumbled into Lafitte's Blacksmith on Bourbon St. last summer and he was playing on the patio and I had no clue who he was but just though about how this weird looking dude was pretty good. Then I saw him on an episode of Treme a couple months later and it took me a couple days to figure out where I recognized him from.
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11:22a, 10/23/12
Steve earle is by far my favorite living singer songwriter.
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11:31a, 10/23/12
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Needs Stevie Ray's cover of Little Wing.
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12:09p, 10/23/12
Didn't they used to play "Good Night Eileen" every night at closing time?
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12:16p, 10/23/12
It's "Good Night Irene" and it should be on that list.
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No, they never played that, but they have been playing Good Night Irene at closing for a while now.
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Northgate Noise by Bottlecap Records has four volumes (CD's) and does include Goodnight Irene as the last song on CD 4. I don't think they are making anymore of them but you may still be able to find some somewhere.
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Volume I
1. She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Double) - Gary Stewart
2. Sangria Wine - Jerry Jeff Walker
3. Luckenbach, Texas (Back in the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
4. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. Gringo Honeymoon - Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
6. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Freddie Fender
7. Redneck Girl - Bellamy Brothers
8. Tight Fittin' Jeans - Conway Twitty
9. Southbound 35 - Pat Green
10. Guitar Town - Steve Earl
11. King of the Road - Roger Miller
12. White Lightin' - George Jones

Volume II
1. Drinkin' My Baby Goodbye - The Charlie Daniels Band
2. My Hometown - Charlie Robison
3. I Can Tell By The Way You Dance - Vern Gosdin
4. Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver) - Merle Haggard
5. Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
6. The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
7. All The Gold In California - Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
8. El Paso - Marty Robbins
9. Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
10. Just Good Ol' Boys - Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley
11. Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time - Mickey Gilley
12. You Never Even Called Me By My Name - David Allan Coe
13. Whiskey River - Willie Nelson

Volume III
1. In America - The Charlie Daniels Band
2. Barlight - Charlie Robison
3. Jack Daniels If You Please - David Allan Coe
4. Pancho & Lefty - Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson
5. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
6. Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On - Mel McDaniels
7. Big Iron - Marty Robbins
8. Pride & Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan
9. Take This Job and Shove It - Johnny Paycheck
10. Bandy The Rodeo Clown - Moe Bandy
11. Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
12. Chug A Lug - Roger Miller
13. I Can Get Off On You - Willie Nelson

Volume IV
1. Your Place Or Mine - Gary Stewart
2. Lone Star Beer & Bob Wills Music - Red Steagall
3. Don't Call Him A Cowboy - Conway Twitty
4. The Road Goes On Forever - Rober Earl Keen Jr.
5. I'm A Ramblin' Man - Waylon Jennings
6. Six Days On The Road - Dave Dudley
7. Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother - Jerry Jeff Walker
8. Rose Colored Glasses - John Conlee
9. Amos Moses - Jerry Reed
10. Fraulein - Bobby Helms
11. Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet) - Tom T. Hall
12. Fightin' Texas Aggie - Dub Miller
13. Good Night Irene - Red Foley & Ernest Tubb
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I worked at the Chicken from 1979-82...need to add some of the following:

* Guy Clark...Texas 1947, Let Him Roll, Rita Ballou, Instant Coffee Blues
* Coe...If That Ain't Country
* Hank Jr....A Country Boy Can Survive
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Philo B 93
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8:27p, 10/23/12
I'm proud of the fact that I couldn't identify the last song of the night as Irene or Eileen. My belly was normally full of pitchers lone star beer!!

I also remember "Why Don't We Get Drunk" by Jimmy Buffet.
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There were times where we'd throw in something completely off base to stir the pot.

The most successful, by far, was Staying Alive by the Bee Gees. We decided to tone it down a little after we realized that it really could have ended up as a mob! Drunk Aggies slamming their bones down to boogie on table tops while singing falsetto at the top of their lungs wasn't as safe an idea as we thought it would be but damn it was fun!!!!

I tried Beat It one night and that was almost as dangerous. Almost.

I would man the front bar and play an hour straight of Bob Wills and other Texas Swing Music! Good times!
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9:37p, 10/23/12
There were certain albums that you put on just let play during the day.

Most of Buffet's pre-volcano work.
Bob Wills and the texas play boys for the last time.
Lyle Lovett
Waylon's greatest hits
steve earle's guitar town


I don't think I ever enjoyed a crappier job more.
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9:39p, 10/23/12
I seem to foggily remember that Rose Colored Glasses was played when the back bar closed for the night. About an hour before Goodnight Irene played.
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It is funny how things are constantly changing but everyone swears "we've always done it like this"

There is no way would would have closed the back bar before last call.

I am sure pilgram would look at some of the **** we did and think what the ****? Just like i am sure I would have no idea what the guys working there now would are doing
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9:49p, 10/23/12
Thank you for the nostalgia. That's good bull, and I really do miss that place.
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Duncan...we were probably under a tighter leash...we never knew when Don would show up...if he came in and Alabama or George Strait was playing, he'd get real pissed.

My only real run-in with Don in the four years I worked for him involved "Marina del Ray" playing when he came in early one Friday night. A really cute girl I was chasing after had asked me to play it and in comes Don...I about shat! He chews on me, I explain, he asks where the girl is, he goes over and chews on her (with a grin on his face), she blushes and laughs, he comes back over and chews on me some more, tells me "...if you have to play that new crap, at lesat play 'Amarillo by Morning' or 'Blame it on Mexico'...", tells me I better get laid to make it worth the risk, then stomps on up to the office.

The object of my lust comes over and tells me Don was very nice and told her she needed to be very nice to me since I knowingly risked my job for her.

As someone else said, I never had so much fun at such a crappy job, and I do miss Don. As hard as it may be to believe, I've had a lot of worse boss since him.
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quote:
I also remember "Why Don't We Get Drunk" by Jimmy Buffet.


Yeah I remember 'Pencil Thin Mustache' was in the rotation a bit as well.
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Didn't know if listed already, but these are also in my "Chicken Mix":

London Homesick Blues - Gary P. Nunn
Bob Wills is Still the King - Waylon
Jack Daniels if you Please - David Allen Coe
This Cowboy's Hat - Chris LeDoux
L.A. Freeway - Jerry Jeff
Front Porch Song - REK
Family Tradition - Hank, Jr.
Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues, Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
Waltz Across Texas - Ernest Tubb
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a few more come to mind...

"Ramblin' Scramblin'" and "Pissin' in the Wind" by Jerry Jeff

"I Like Beer" by Tom T. Hall
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I read this as 'Dixie Chicks Greatest Hits' and was all WTF when I started reading.
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Htown comes strong.
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Tequila Sheila- Bobby Bare
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quote:
I read this as 'Dixie Chicks Greatest Hits' and was all WTF when I started reading.


I did too haha
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